Abeele, Achior van den (18th century)

Achior van den Abeele, from 1712 the preacher of the United Flemish and Frisian Mennonites who regularly assembled on Koningstraat in Haarlem (Dutch province of North Holland) in the first half of the eighteenth century. He wrote poetry and published the following: Den weg der vergankelykheyd (The Way of Transitoriness), with a title page engraving by Vincent van der Vinne (Haarlem, 1717); Eens Jongelings pelgrimagie of wandelweg (A Youth's Pilgrimage or Way) with reflections on the flood of 25 December 1717; De Stand van een lydend Christen (The State of a Suffering Christian), (1718); Het Wereldlyk Alarm geestelykerwys toegepast (The Worldly Alarm Applied Spiritually), (1719); Eemge stichtelyke gedachten over de algemeene genadige bezoekingen Gods (Some Devotional Thoughts on the General Gracious Visitations of God), (1718); Den uyterlyken Boogaard (The Outward Orchard), (1730); De Christelyk Huyshouding (The Christian Household), (1740). In the second book appear verses about the Mennonites Isaak van Kalcker, Cornelis and Evert Mabé.